cron script error -- "Resource temporarily unavailable" [was: (no subject)]

[Jason Opperisano]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 23:37, Michael Thompson wrote:
> Every once in a while while I am running a script from cron, it outputs 
> this:
> 
> iptables: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> what is that about? Could it be that two processes are trying to access 
> IPTables?

without any details about what the script is trying to do, i doubt
anyone is going to provide a useful response to you.

for example, if the script is trying to load a custom chain with 10,000
rules in it--this post from the archives may be similar to the problem
you are experiencing:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=netfilter&m=110064111107583&w=2

-j

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